Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was , in his way , as redundant as the steam engines whose numbers he had avidly collected as a boy in Swindon . |
| 2 | Ron Letts , who was 50 , and had only worked as a security guard for two years , was run down outside a wharehouse near Milton Keynes . |
| 3 | Ron Letts , who was 50 , and had only worked as a security guard for two years , was run down outside a wharehouse near Milton Keynes . |
| 4 | He died eight months later , riddled with cancer that had apparently begun as a football injury . |
| 5 | Temple 's decision to increase its offer had not come as a surprise , he said , and the SeaCo board would meet next week to consider its response . |
| 6 | His view of Ireland , a highly romanticised one , had been initiated by his reading of Heinrich Böll 's Irisches Tagebuch which , coincidentally , I had just read as a way of getting into German again after two decades of neglect . |
| 7 | He had just qualified as a surgeon . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes and no , ’ mumbled Hyacinth , to whom the news of the arrest and incarceration of the chairman of the YCs had just come as a surprise . |
| 9 | With its crossed bands of stone , its high arched windows and copper cupola it reminded Dalgliesh of the brick towers he had laboriously erected as a child , brick on precarious brick , until they toppled in noisy disorder on the nursery floor . |
| 10 | Despite her previous marriage , Æthelthryth had always lived as a virgin and was determined to remain one , retiring altogether to live as a nun in Coldingham about 672 . |
| 11 | Goh had formally resigned as a member of parliament ( while remaining Prime Minister ) on Dec. 1 in order to contest the by-election . |
| 12 | A spokesman for the DTI acknowledged that the department had been broadly aware of the situation at Leyland-DAF in September but insisted that news of the receivership had still come as a surprise . |
| 13 | Although not unexpected , his death had still come as a shock . |
| 14 | The twelve were there , in the big room that had once served as a dining room in this grand old house . |
| 15 | It reminded him of a veined glass marble he had once owned as a boy . |
| 16 | Looking into her frightened eyes , he could n't help being reminded of a leveret he had once caught as a boy . |
| 17 | Although he relished playing for Rangers , the team he had fervently supported as a youth , Fleck fell foul of the club 's increasingly strict discipline . |
| 18 | Fudah , 47 , was a professor of agriculture who had unsuccessfully stood as a candidate in legislative elections , most recently in 1990 . |
| 19 | Known to be pro-Syrian , he had earlier argued against the boycott , but had unsuccessfully stood as a candidate for the National Charter List party in the Bekaa . |
| 20 | Farmers ' incomes had also increased as a result of rises in the state purchasing price for produce , but retail prices had not risen . |
| 21 | One officer who had also worked as a trade effluent inspector remarked on ‘ the variety and the flexibility and freedom that this job gives you as opposed to trade effluent control . |
| 22 | We come closer to contemporary retirement with the second Roberts grandfather , a man who had been much less successful at work , and after failing as a shopkeeper had nearly failed as a farmer until his son took over . |
| 23 | This post had often served as a launching-pad for a future general-secretary as the careers of both Erich Honecker and Egon Krenz in East Germany show . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's an experienced player now and I would be disappointed if he had n't matured as a player all round . ’ |
| 25 | As Othello tells him that Cassio had even acted as a go-between in their courtship , Iago appears surprised — ‘ Indeed ! ’ — and takes refuge behind a series of evasive answers — ‘ Honest , my lord ? ’ |
| 26 | Old-style large warrens , which had virtually disappeared as a result of modern farming techniques , are re-appearing in the middle of set aside fields . |
| 27 | Gen. Vieira , who had previously served as a minister for the Azores Islands , replaced the interim Governor , Franciso Murteira Nabo , who had been appointed in September 1990 following the resignation of Carlos Melancia over corruption allegations [ see p. 37714 ] . |
| 28 | As well as cutting client prices to $250 and server prices to $1,300 , Univel has bucked up its Personal server Edition with the Windows Merge facility it had previously listed as a $400 add-on product so it can run DOS and Windows 3.0/3.1 applications under Unix . |
| 29 | He wants to use the battle field , which he had previously described as a place of ‘ ungracious clamours ’ , to purge his anger and hurt . |
| 30 | Harry had recently retired as a director of a multi-national company , and , apart from spending more time gardening , had not developed any replacement interests . |